Triple

T11257235
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hudson v. McMillian E266469 entity
Predicate respondent P2238 FINISHED
Object John McMillian
John McMillian is a Louisiana state prisoner whose excessive-force claim against corrections officers led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Hudson v. McMillian, which clarified Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
E914623 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: John McMillian | Statement: [Hudson v. McMillian, respondent, John McMillian]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John McMillian
Context triple: [Hudson v. McMillian, respondent, John McMillian]
  • A. Alan Pattillo
    Alan Pattillo was a British film and television editor and director known for his work on series like "Thunderbirds" and various feature films.
  • B. William Bradford Huie
    William Bradford Huie was an American journalist and author known for his hard-hitting nonfiction books on race, war, and crime, several of which were adapted into films.
  • C. Charles Allen
    Charles Allen was a prominent 19th-century American politician and jurist from Massachusetts known for his strong anti-slavery stance and leadership in early anti-slavery political movements.
  • D. C. Vann Woodward
    C. Vann Woodward was a prominent American historian best known for his influential works on the history of the American South and race relations in the United States.
  • E. Taylor Branch
    Taylor Branch is an American historian and author best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning trilogy on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: John McMillian
Triple: [Hudson v. McMillian, respondent, John McMillian]
Generated description
John McMillian is a Louisiana state prisoner whose excessive-force claim against corrections officers led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Hudson v. McMillian, which clarified Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John McMillian
Target entity description: John McMillian is a Louisiana state prisoner whose excessive-force claim against corrections officers led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Hudson v. McMillian, which clarified Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
  • A. Alan Pattillo
    Alan Pattillo was a British film and television editor and director known for his work on series like "Thunderbirds" and various feature films.
  • B. William Bradford Huie
    William Bradford Huie was an American journalist and author known for his hard-hitting nonfiction books on race, war, and crime, several of which were adapted into films.
  • C. Charles Allen
    Charles Allen was a prominent 19th-century American politician and jurist from Massachusetts known for his strong anti-slavery stance and leadership in early anti-slavery political movements.
  • D. C. Vann Woodward
    C. Vann Woodward was a prominent American historian best known for his influential works on the history of the American South and race relations in the United States.
  • E. Taylor Branch
    Taylor Branch is an American historian and author best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning trilogy on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d6aac7953c8190b82caf9d7640fdf9 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e935b85c819085e1abf2dd4099c5 completed April 9, 2026, 6 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e4cca0d25c8190bfdbe1f6ee3b04cb completed April 19, 2026, 12:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e4d9ec9964819084bd7118e49c41a2 completed April 19, 2026, 1:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e4ddab4ef48190ab7f371da765c6c0 completed April 19, 2026, 1:50 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:31 p.m.